October 18, 1852 was the 85th anniversary of the birth of the city of Gympie and the discovery of gold by James Nash, which made it all possible.

To celebrate this anniversary, this small booklet was produced, and includes a collection of memoirs of early pioneers which first appeared as articles in the 'Gympie Times' in 1938.

In a collection of 24 articles, you will find details on first settlers, aboriginies, growing up in the town, the chinese, stores, a women faces the hardships, Inglewood Hill, entertainment, mulberries, trips in the dray, on the road, life as a pit-sawyer and more.

This is a valuable collection of local reminiscences of a past era.

This ebook is a the same as the CD version from Archive Digital Books Australasia which is available from Gould Genealogy & other retailers. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole original volume, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.